Tag: France

• Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 07:58 UTC

  Five French refurbished Super Etendard fighter bombers en route to Argentina

  

  Argentina will be receiving in a few weeks time five refurbished Dassault-Breguet Super Etendard (SEM) fighter bombers decommissioned from the French navy. The 13 million Euro purchase also includes a flight simulator, engines and spares and are currently sailing across the Atlantic en route to Bahía Blanca.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Five years to rebuild Notre Dame, says Macron: “people will join to repair the national symbol”

  

  President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Tuesday that France would rebuild the fire-devastated Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying he hoped the work would be done in five years and the French people would pull together to repair their national symbol.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Macron vows to rebuild the 850-year old Gothic Notre Dame cathedral

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame after a major fire partially destroyed the Paris landmark. Firefighters managed to save the 850-year-old Gothic building's main stone structure, including its two towers, but the spire and roof collapsed.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Canada joins France, Germany and Japan at the Alliance for Multilateralism

  

  Canada has formally joined a German-French coalition aimed at saving the international world order from destruction by various world dictators and autocrats — and U.S. President Donald Trump.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Record breaking tourist year for France despite the Yellow Vest protests

  

  According to France’s national statistics institute (INSEE), the number of nights foreign tourists spent in the country’s hotels, campsites and youth hostels reached 438.2 million, marking an increase of nine million visitors against the previous year.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:09 UTC

  France calls for more Euro solidarity, otherwise the EU project is “unsustainable”

  

  Widening differences over economic policy among Euro area countries are “unsustainable” and could undermine the currency union itself, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.“There isn't enough solidarity in the Euro-zone,” Le Maire told reporters on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring meetings.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 07:00 UTC

  Trump will attend 75th anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy

  

  United States president Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will attend ceremonies to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy that broke Nazi Germany's grip on France.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  France approves tax on digital giants: defends fiscal sovereignty and honored to break ground

  

  French lawmakers on Monday approved a new tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple that has angered the United States, with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire boasting that France was proud to be in the vanguard of such a move.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  French/Canadian consortium takes Petrobras major gas pipeline in north Brazil

  

  A consortium led by France's Engie SA submitted the highest offer for a major gas pipeline unit owned by Petrobras, the state-run oil firm said on Friday, as the company's biggest divestment draws to a close.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  China orders 300 jets from Airbus during Xi's visit to Paris

  

  Airbus has secured an order from China for 300 jets, in a deal estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars. An agreement to purchase A320 and A350 XWB aircraft was signed during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Paris.